war story: my new off-the-shelf desktop computer

[D. Hugh Redelmeier]

| From: William Park <opengeometry-FFYn/CNdgSA at public.gmane.org>

| On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 12:03:31PM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote:

| > Remember if it ever breaks, they almost certainly won't do warranty work
| > unless it still has Windows 8 installed.  Hopefully that will never be an issue.
| 
| One easy way is to extract the original harddisk (for safe keeping), and
| install your own.  If you're having problem, then swap it back and call
| tech support.

This one came with a generous 2T Hard drive.  My current plan is to
leave Win8 on it, allowing it 10% of the disk (including all the
recovery etc. partitions), and boot Linux off of a shiny new SSD.

What I don't know is how to use the SSD.  On my current desktop, I
use it for /, not /home.  Easy to replace when it goes south.  As an
SSD has done on me in that machine.

The new SSD is 256G, so it is a waste to use it for just / (well, two
/, since I alternate partitions when installing new releases).

On my current system, I have a /fast filesystem on the SSD, but I
never seem to use it.

Perhaps I should simply put /home on the SSD and rsync it frequently
to the HDD.  Is rsync the best way to do this between local drives?

Any suggestions before I get committed to any of this?  (My SSD isn't
here yet.)
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